captioning funded by cbs good morning. it's wednesday, february 15, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. breaking news from iran as the country's nuclear program takes a new step forward. raising tensions with the west and israel. and new poll numbers are a plus for president obama as he hits the campaign trail today. we'll talk with campaign strategist, david axelrod. i'm daily king. as whitney houston's family prepares for her funeral, we'll look at the preparations. viola davis stops by to talk about her oscar nomination.

the new research says antibiotics are not the answer. we'll tell you why the world is lin-sane over another nba star. we begin with today's eye-opener. your world in 190 seconds. made very clear that they are not to develop a nuclear weapon. >> iran announces more nuclear progress as tensions rise after a series of attacks. >> they are doing everything they can to help the israelis. >> three attacks in two days. israel sies iran is behind them. >> a war might spread to even more countries. the tax is going to pass. >> they reach a sent tiff deal on extending the payroll tax cut without pay for. >> i have concerns approximate this. i think we missed the mark. >> you can't take anything for granted until my signature is actually on it. president obama met with the man set to take control of china. >> it's critically important that the you state and china

develop a strong working relationship. >> that's what happens when you get behind an arrest, the landlord starts looking around. >> fans created a memorial to her on the fence around her home church in newark, new jersey. the guy eyes the watch left behind. grabs it, walks away with it. >> i heard trump's hair won top prize at westminster dog show. >> best in show is the pekinese. >> all that. >> martha stewart has been to prison and has a dog named beginning as kan. when did she become -- lin puts it up, bang. jeremy lin from downtown. >> can you believe this is happening to me? >> on "cbs this morning." >> no.

well come "cbs this morning." where we begin with breaking news. iran is announcing plans to upgrade the nuclear program and is loading fuel into one of its reactors for the first time this morning. >> a move sure to increase tensions between iran and the u.s. charlie d'agata is following the story. >> good morning, erica. iranian media is also talking about the plan to unveil fourth generation centrifuges. they cast doubt on the claims saying the iranians have been struggling to reach second or third generation. at any rate, they have a higher speed and production capacity. but iran has exaggerated capabilities before. as far as we know, the highest level of enrichment conducted so far is 20%. that's well below the 80% necessary to build a bomb. the fear is that iran could be capable much producing enough

uranium without the world knowing. benjamin net an yau hugh said it must be stopped. he reasserted claims that they were targeted diplomats in india and georgia. in that i land, investigators confirm that material uncovered similar to the devices found in other attacks. next week the nuclear watchdog traveled to iran. the question is whether the negotiations are able to break an international stalemate or escalate tensions over iran's nuclear ambitions. >> charlie, thank you so much. let's bring in juan zara it te? washington. >> good morning charlie. what do experts make of why the iranians are making this announcement at this time? >> it's not clear why they're making this announcement now. but i think they want to signal to the world that they are continuing to march toward a

nuclear capability. this is an important message not just externally for the iranian regime but internally, charlie. this is a unifying issue for many in iran. declaring a continued march in the face of sabotage and sanctions becomes an important message for the iranian regime itself. so i think that's why you will see continuous announcements. whether or not they're believable, the experts have to examine that. but that's why i think you're seeing continuous announcements, especially in the face of pressure. >> do american and israeli and other experts have a time in which necessity think that the iranians will have enough enriched uranium to make a bomb, six months shall a year, longer, shorter? >> charlie, this is the grand debate. experts say the clock is ticking. but how slowly is still an issue of debate. the israelis have always said that the timeline is shter. they've looked to a year, maybe two years to have iran at a point where they have a nuclear

weapons capability. we've heard secretary panetta talk about a year to two years as well. no doubt the program has been slowed and hampered by external sanks and the saab tanl efforts that we've heard. such as the virus that infected the computers in iran. but they're making progress and it's outside the gaze of the nuclear watchdog, the iaea. >> what do you make of the charges that these attacks were carried out by iran or its agents? >> well, i find it wholly believable. this forms part of a pattern and practice of iranian terrorism using hezbollah and other operative around the world. the history of two decades of doing this. you look back to the attacks in argentina in 1992, 1994 attacks on the towers in saudi arabia and kuwait. there's a history and pattern to this. no doubt there is a proxy war under way. these recent attacks in georgia

and india are just the latest manifestations of that. >> juan, what about the threat to the united states and to americans around the world? >> erica, i know counterterrorism officials in the u.s. are looking at precisely that. they're worried that this is the signal perhaps a harr bin jer of attacks to come. no doubt iran wants to signal to the united states that this is the kind of thing that iran could do if they are attacked or pressured further. so u.s. counterterrorism officials are no doubt looking at hezbollah cells in the country as well as those that might be looking at u.s. interests around the world. >> juan, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thanks, charlie. president obama here in the united states begins a three-day campaign trail today riding on good news from the latest cbs times new york times poll. >> according to that survey, voters prefer the president over all of his potential republican rivals in november. senior white house correspondent bill plante is with us this morning. good morning. >> good morning, erica.

his republican rivals are continuing their battle much to the delight of the president'ses campaign folks. the president today heads out to do a little fundraising. this comes just a week after his campaign reversed course and said that it would encourage those large unlimited donations to a super pac. >> this campaign trip will take the president first to wisconsin an important swing state where he'll showcase jobs returning to the u.s. from overseas. then a series of fundraisers in california and an appearance in seattle at boeing which has announced a $22 billion airplane order. the trip finds mr. obama better positioned than he expected at this point. his approval rating in the new cbs news new york times poll is 50%. its highest point sin the death of osama bin laden. more good news, smooth sailing on capitol hill for the president's proposed payroll tax cut which days ago had seemed destined for a fight with house republicans. that had the president warily

optimistic. >> you can't take anything for dpranted if you're in washington. until my signature is actually on it. >> even though more americans disapprove than approve of the president's handling of the economy, his numbers have moved steadily upwards since november from 34% approval to 44%. and the republicans considered most likely to be his opponent in november now trails in a head to head matchup by 6 percentage points among registered voters. even more important, independents who will be crucial to victory in november now break for the president over governor romney by nine points. just one month ago romney was up eight. a 17-point swing. however, it is way too soon for the white house to pop the champagne corks. the economy is still the biggest issue by far for voters. three quarters of them say that it's in bad condition. charlie, erica? >> bill, thanks. we go to chicago and talk with david axelrod, the obama campaign senior strategist.

good morning, david. >> good morning rg charm i. >> this is welcome economic news and fit what the president intends to run on in. >> obviously, the economy is paramount in people's minds. we're going to keep working at it every single day to move this economy forward and build an economy that will last and that where the middle class is growing and not shrinking. people can work hard and expect to get ahead. that's what the president has been doing. i think it's paying off. we have a long way to go. we don't get exhilarated by good poll number. we're not devastated by bad poll numbers. we keep our -- we stick to our knitting and keep going forward. >> do you consider as many observers do that the most accurate poll to watch is right direction, wrong direction and that's what measure the country's feeling about the incumbent? >> you know, i think that this is -- electing a president is a complicated thing. obviously, that's important. i think people are feeling a little bit better about the

country now than they had been at the peak of the recession when we took office. but there are other measures as well. measures like does the president understand my concerns and my problems and things that i'm struggling with in my life. the president did well in your poll on that. governor romney, less than a third of people said that related well to him. so you know, there are a lot of measures that i look at. >> you're the political man for the president. let's look at the republican race for a moment. most people expected for a while, including you and your strategist, that romney will be the nominee. santorum looks stronger now. he's from pennsylvania, a key state. he is leading romney in michigan. does he provide a different and more damaging and more dangerous opponent for you? >> well, i don't know about that. the truth is that when it comes to the economy, all of the republicans are largely in the same basket. they all favor a return to the policies that we saw in the last decade. that really favored a few at the

expense of the country as a whole. and i don't think people want to return to that. but he's obviously -- governor romney has problems and you know, he has problems for three reasons. one is he's taken multiple positions -- go ahead. >> i want to come back to where we are not to where you see romney. the question today about santorum, is this notion about who can in in election appeal to blue collar voters, which is many people say santorum's strength, along with the seemingly rise of social issues. put that in your own context. >> well, first of all, i would say that, as i said just a second ago, i think when people really examine his economic policies, i don't think that the average working person in this country is going to look at his policies and say, yeah, that's the ticket for me. that offers great hope for me. secondly, i think that many of the positions he's taken on social issues are quite divisive, not widely shared. i think your poll reflects some of that.

so, you know, people don't really know senator santorum particularly well and when they do, we'll get a better sense of where he stands. >> did the contraception issue and the question of catholic charities hurt your campaign? did it give the president n opportunity to have to say wait a minute, we may have been too -- out too fast on this? >> look, i i think that a vast majority of americans and that's also reflected in your poll, support the notion that women -- all women should have access to basic preventative care, including contraception. so i think that there's strong support for that. i think the president handled it in i a sensitive way taking into consideration those concerns that were raised by the leaders of the catholic church. so we were not looking to create divisions, we were looking to advance the cause of women's health. and i think we've done that and in the appropriate way. >> david, it's erica. good morning.

i want to ask you a quick question. >> good morning. >> good morning. cbs reported that the most recent payroll tax extension was paid for in part by adding a fee on to thmortgages for new homeowners. how will this latest extension be paid for, do homeowners have to worry about that? >> the most important thing is to he can tend the payroll tax cut. it's not funded as previous as i understand it. because they're meant to stimulate the economy in the short run. and we've seen the effect of it in part in the economic numbers that we've had. so this is -- this is incorporated in our -- in our deficit plan. looking down the line and we'll ameliorate the impact of it. but it's so important for people today not to be hit with a thousand dollar tax increase when our economy is just coming out of the recession and when we need to accelerate our growth. >> can i just clarify one thing

you just said. you made it sound like you thought having the new homeowners pay for it in their mortgage was not going to stimulate the economy. it made it sound like you didn't think it was a good way do things. >> the fee that we've asked for is to help pay for a plan that would allow homeowners to refinance their -- to refinance their mortgages. i think that is appropriate given the role that the financial sector played in the problem in the first place. >> david, one last quick question about super pacs. you have said you have to go to super pacs as well. are we looking to one of the most highest financed and also bloodiest campaigns ahead in this general election because of the amount of money that will be spent on negative campaigning? >> what caused us to act, charlie, was two things. one is some of the intelligence coming out of the super pac community on the republican side that suggested they'll spend maybe $700 million to try and defeat the president. if you look at what the super

pacs have done in the republican primaries, virtually every ad run is negative. there's a concern about that. i hope that that's not the case. i think one of the reasons you've seen a disspiriting among republicans is that there's so much negatism on that side. i don't think people are looking for that. they want to know how to move this country forward and we'll be talking about that throughout this campaign. >> thank you so much, david axelrod from chicago. changing here to the question of whitney houston's fans who want to say good pi this weekend. they may feel left out. there will be no public memorial service for the 48-year-old singer who died on saturday. michelle miller is in newark, new jersey where an invitation only funeral will be held on saturday. good morning. new hope baptist church is where whitney houston got her start in music. on saturday at noon it's where family and friends alone will

stay goodbye. >> whitney houston lived much of her life in public. but on saturday, the singer's family will remember her in private. an intimate service is being planned at the 1500-seat church where houston first showcased her singing talents as a child. >> they have shared her for 30-some years with the city, with the state, with the world. this is their time now for their farewell. >> grieving fans had hoped for a public memorial. but instead were left to pay tribute with flowers, balloons and messages. >> it brought tears to my eyes. when you grow up hearing someone like that, you wouldn't ex approximate ekt that she would be gonso soon. >> the family requests any donations sent to the whitney houston academy of creative and performing arts. the east orange elementary school she attended. it was renamed in 1998 to give inspiration to a new generation. >> i've always said t myself, i want to be just like her. i want her to rest. >> the investigation into

houston's death at the beverly hilton continues. it's been reported the 48-year-old was discovered underwater in the bathroom of her hotel room. they found several prescription drugs in the room also. houston's godmother aretha franklin offered her own tribute this week at a concert in north carolina. she's expected to attend the funeral on saturday. new jersey's governor has ordered all state flags to fly at half-staff on saturday. in the meantime, investigators have requested all of houston's medical records. they want to know why those prescription drugs were inside her hotel room at the time of her death. michelle, thank you so much. it is time now to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. the chicago tribune reports former illinois governor blagojevich is head today

colorado next month. he will serve his 14-year prison sentence for corruption at a federal prison outside denver. a story from the carolina journal online website says a preschool student was told to eat cafeteria chicken nuggets after a north carolina state employee decided the lunch she brought to school was not nutritious. that lunch has a banana, potato chips and apple juice and a turkey sandwich. went on a shopping spree at the new york annual gift fair. he reported spent $20 million in four days, then was taken in for psychiatric observation. and valentine's day setting off sparks and turning out the lights in fontana, california. the los angeles times says a mylar balloon hit an electrical substation knocking out power to 15,000 people for more than an hour. the utility spokesman says it happens every

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giving the knicks their sickth straight win. you'll hear from armen keteyian and james brown when we come back. you're watching "cbs this morning." 26 minutes past 7:00. the sun breaking threw the clouds in the eastern sky on a pretty mild, relatively mild day start. sharon is watching the streets for you, marty is over at first warning weather. >> and let's take a look at the forecast for the day. it is around 41 degrees right now. going to go for a high temperature of 51 this afternoon. let's send it over to sharon at wjz tv traffic control, good morning,. >> hi, matter yif, good morning, everyone, a pretty mild morning on the rotes as well, one incident could get in your way, a water main break there blocking millington and delays now 95 southbound and then on the jfx between the beltway and 28th street. there is your speeds on the

beltway. down to 35 miles an hour, there is 83 at pedonia road. you might have to tap your brakes between there and the beltway. this traffic report is brought to you by home paramount pest control. back over to you. >> hundreds of families are spending the morning without gas service after crews hit a gas main and it may take days before the heat gets turned back on. andrea fujii is live near millington avenue. >> reporter: the city has set up a heated shelter for those residents affected. the department of public works say it started early tuesday morning when a crew was working on a broken water main and a piece of asphalt fell on a 4 inch bge gas line and broke it. 900 buildings are affected though half of them are vacant. the utility needs access to each home to shut off the gas and if any residents nall gas

appliances have taken on water the city may pay for those. back to you. >> after more than a week of testimony the prosecution will likely wrap up today in the murder trial of george huguely, accused of killing his exgirlfriend yeardly love from cockysville in charlottesville two years ago, the prosecution says they had a violent encounter in per in her bedroom that left her dead. the defense says it was accidental. >> a man was trapped underneat a tractor and killed. his name has not been released, a new organizer for the grand me has grand prix is expected to be announced.

stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station. up next a look at the new york knick's newcomer, jeremy lin, who ,,,,,,,,

we're so excited to be here! >> so excited. do you know any maroon five? can can we hear a little? >>. ♪ ♪ i got the moves like jagger i've got the moves like jagger ♪ >> yeah! they're on assignment for the ellen show at the grammys. you take talent where you can get it. welcome back to cbs this morning. the biggest story in sports right now is a young basketball

player named jeremy lin. out of nowhere, he's bringing fans to their feet and outplaying nba legends like kobe bryant. >> talk about talent. he's generating so much excitement, a lot of people are comparing him to tim tebow. last night as armen keteyian reports, lin added another chapter to his legend. >> lin puts it up, fires! jeremy lin -- >> the jeremy lin-sanity tour continued its ride in toronto last night. the newest sensation draining the game winning three-pointer. a full house watched the once overlooked, now overnight star continue to set the sports world ablaze. >> he drives. puts it in. >> for those living on another planet the last ten days, he's the 6'3", 200 pound point guard for the new york knicks. an american asian by way of harvard. until late last week he rarely left the bench and lived on the couch at his brother's

apartment. with his team struggling the undrafted largely unwanted lin got a shot and went on a transcendent tear. >> lin drives again. >> averaging 27 points and nine assists over a six-game stretch. all nick wins. ending up on the cover of the sprorts illustrated. that's just the start. it was once $20, now $1500 plus for his autograph. he's now the fastest growing athletic brand. $14 million and counting. >> can you believe this is happening to you? >> no. >> lin grew up in northern california. the son of engineers born in taiwan. despite leading his team to a state championship in high school, he was shunned by top college programs. so he enrolled at harvard leading the crimson in scoring his senior year. only to be ignored again come nba draft day. cut by two nba teams, he was on the verge of being released in

new york when head coach mike d'antoni made a desperate move. once that since turned madison square garden into the theater of the absurd. >> you watch him and you're in awe. >> the 23-year-old arrived at the perfect time into a post super bowl void and a social media world captivated by his unlikely rise. his last name an open invitation to lynne-credible, joyful plays on word from the famous. >> i've got a raging case of lin-sanity. >> the others simply sharing in his lin-spiring success he is. >> lynne diesel. >> he's lin credible. >> i didn't know you could turn lin into so many things. there's no telling how long this show will last. how long a poster boy for underdogs of every age and race will shine. but for now, quite frankly, it's a beautiful lin to see. >> the story continues.

armen keteyian is with us now. along with james brown. j.b. of cbs sports. he's in our washington newsroom. we take note that j.b. played basketball for the very same harvard college, good morning, it's good to talk about this phenomenon. it is the real thing. >> i think so right now. six games, what can you ask for. i mean, he's going to fall to earth sometime, charm i. but right now, i mean this is a fairytale come true. it's new york, it's a new york media market. but very, very few feel-good stories like this that i've seen in a long long time. >> how do you explain it? >> i mean, you explain it in the sense he was overlooked. he didn't look like the classic basketball player, athleticwise and sort of that perfect body. but he's one of those guys who just understands the game and has a great feel for the sport. when he got an opportunity and he got out on the biggest stage in the world, he's made the most of it. >> j.b. everybody at harvard must be very, very proud. >> including yours truly.

i'm sitting down here in bob schieffer territory, if he can be proud of tcu, i can be proud of harvard. arm en worded it perfectly, the kid what's got game. he can play. we ought to be applauding what this kid has done and what he represents. >> where does he go from here, armen? if he can keep up the momentum, it's one thing. but how does he fit in going forward. >> they're going to game plan against him now. he's to the level where coaches have to deal with him on the court. it's part of a maturation process and an evolvement as a player. he's got all the kind of ingredients that you need for greatness on the court. he can shoot, he makes better -- people better around him. he can go to the basket. he can play the pick and roll with d'antoni. frankly, i haven't seen -- obviously, asian american, harvard, there's a whole social phenomena that's come up around him. i love all the sayings,

lin-sane. >> this is also a new york story. >> absolutely. >> it he the perfect person at this time to bring the knicks to where we want him to be? he is the kind of point guard that we need. >> you say that as a man who suffered through this team for quite a long time. you know, you have stoudemire and carmello who are coming back and playing with jeremy. it's -- the garden when it's right and it's right, right now, there's nothing like it in the world of sports. i think, you know, can he hold on? we'll see. but boy, these are six spectacular games in a row. >> we mentioned that some people are comparing him to tebow because there's an interest in his story. how important is that? you guys are sports guys. armen and j.b., for normal people like, say, me, how important is it to get more people invested in the nba especially after the debacle that got us back to some sort of a season. >> i think it's important erica.

if you peel back the layers, it's an excellent story. he's a deep guy if you will. he's got the requisite skills to do well on the basketball court. hard work and perseverance are at the core here in terms of what he's taking advantage of. here's a guy who is ready at the right time and he's capitalized on it fully. look, i like the old muhammad ali expression. i got this from the harvard basketball coach. ali used to say i've done all the roadwork, now i can dance in the light. and the light of new york is the brightest in in country and he, jeremy lin, has taken full advantage of it. >> j.b., we're pleased to know that harvard, when it wanted to get a good basketball program went to duke to get a coach. take note of that. i also -- >> oh, my god. >> i want you to take note and look at these photos. this is you in your glory days. >> if erica wanted to know why they're cheering him versus 200 years ago when i was there, look at that picture.

charlie, erica and arm yen isn't it nice that i'm wearing a teeny weenie aft weenie afro as to opposed back that. >> if he could support tcu, you could do the same. he wears purple socks. are you getting crimson footwear. >> just a little bit. but i'm so proud of what they're doing up there at harvard and jeremy lin, as armen said, harvard is not the gateway to the nba. yes, the kid is the first asian american, but he's flat-out a basketball player. we have a small sample size, only six games, but a phenomenal sample size and when stoudemire and anthony carmello are back together, his numbers may come down only because lin is smart enough to know get the ball to the big and he has enough to create game himself. thank you both. >> you're welcome. prosecutors asking a disturbing question at the university of virginia murder

trial. could yeardley love, in fact, have survived if someone had just called for help? we'll hear what doctors say when we return. tomorrow, ryan reynolds will be here. we'll ask him about sharing the big screen with denzel washington. you're watching "cbs this morning." [ female announcer ] today is the day you make a change with hellmann's. make parmesan crusted chicken

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air force security. you know the drill, right? pick up your things. oh, but wait. this passenger is a fort lauderdale airport caught on camera picking up something else. a $6500 rolex from someone else's plastic bin. they're still looking for that guy. >> in virginia, the prosecution is expected to rest today in george huguely's murder trial. on tuesday, doctors gave graphic testimony on how yeardley love died two years ago. >> whit johnson is at the courthouse in charlottesville,

virginia. whit, good morning. >> erica, charlie, good morning to you. one medical expert revealed in the courtroom for the very first time that following yeardley love's brutal beating, had george huguely or anyone else called for help, she might have survived. in a tortured day of expert testimony, jurors learned that star uva lacrosse player yeardley love died slowly over the course of two hours face down on her bed. the prosecution claims on that night, nearly two years ago, george huguely barged into love's apartment in a drunken rampage, slamming her head repeatedly against the wall. in court tuesday, huguely's defense faced an uphill climb. through extensive show and tell, medical experts seem to agree that love's death was a result of her head whipping violently. one neuropathologist who examined her said her brain twisted one way, then the other way with sudden acceleration and deceleration. but under cross-examination by the defense, none of the

witnesses could pinpoint whether that snapping of love's head came from a punch, a fall, a shake or something else. >> you can see that the defense is trying to poke little holes in several different places. the question is, will it really matter very much? >> huguely's attorneys argue that perhaps love died, in part, due to a combination of prescription adderall and a blood alcohol level of .14. but tuesday, the experts concluded that the alcohol and the adderall taken for attention deficit disorder were not at lethal levels. >> the defense strategy appears to be multifaceted. that makes sense because they don't have one single strong theory. so they have to put up a bunch of different arguments and in a sense try to create weak spots. >> still, the driving argument for the defense is that george huguely never intended to kill. they say this was all a tragic accident, that he does not deserve a life sentence but instead a lesser charge and a

second chance. >> whit good morning, we have got gray skies in the area, peaks of sun, which will become more widespread and brighter a gorgeous afternoon, low 40s, now going for a high of 51 degrees today. a mixture of clouds and sun through the afternoon. tonight clouds come back. they really pile in. 32 is the low. gray, damp, rain, drizzle around tomorrow, 48 is a high, let's clear it out friday and saturday, low we've seen it happen many times. a celebrity dies unexpectedly then becomes hugely popular. we'll see how heiress state could benefit from her new fans. you're watching "cbs this morning." ["alluette"]

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now, i understand that someone here today wants to propose. who is it? oh, my god. you've seen the mass wedding. now it's the mass proposal. all of those men getting down on one knee. very sweet. >> everybody wants to get married. what's happening here? >> we hope that they said yes since it was on national tv.

>> nothing better than to see a man at your knees on national tell vig. >> no comment, charlie. we'll be back with more. >> there four minutes before 8:00. quite cloudy outside but seasonably very nice, thank you very much. sharon has traffic right after marty's first warning weather. >> let's take a look at the forecast. the sun will come out more than now. low 40s, a high of 51 later on today. now, here is sharon gibala, wjz tv traffic control. >> hi, marty, good morning, after one, not a bad morning on the roads, we still have that water main break there, take brunswick. minor delays from whiter mash boulevard to 895. jfx slow down. there is a look at the beltway. this traffic report is brought

to you by home paramount pest control. don, back over to you. >> thank you. and that broken water main led to a broken natural gas line in southwest baltimore leaving hundreds with no heat or gas to cook with and could be days before service is restored. andrea fujii has the story. >> reporter: don, the city has set up a heated shelter for those residents affected. the department of public works says it all started early tuesday morning in the 300 block of millington avenue when a crew was working on a water main. they say a piece of asphalt fell on a 4 inch bge gas line and broke it. about 900 buildings are affected, though half are vacant. the utility needs access to each home to shut off the gas and if any resident's natural gas appliances have taken on water the city may pay for those repairs. don, back to you. >> thank you very much. in annapolis the same sex marriage bill moves on to the full house of delegates today.

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happy valentine's day. oh, yeah. it's so exciting. everyone on the campaign trail is celebrating with their sweetheart. rick santorum and his wife karen, newt gingrich and his wife calista. picture that. thank you jimmy fallon. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. i'm charlie rose with erica hill. iran claims it's upgrading the uranium for its nuclear program and cutting oil exports because of sanctions to its nuclear program. >> it's the latest sign of trouble. with us to talk about that is new york times columnist thomas

friedman. his most recent book is, that used to be us. of course, you're writhing about a lot of things this morning in your column. you probably want to start iran and the latest there. what do you make of what we're hearing? >> it lp seems like the iranian leader is begging someone to take military action to stop iran's program. it's probably a sign also, though that the sanctions that president obama has organized really are starting to bite. the iranian currency has sharply devalued. there's been a lot of unemployment expanded there. they're clearly hurting. that's obvious. but you sort of wonder why he would be -- again, takes these provocative actions, announcing expansion of the nuclear program and punish the europeans. >> tom, how long do you think the israelis would be likely to allow sanctions to work before they would feel that they had to

act? >> well, i think they're operating on multiple clocks, charlie. one is the clock of the iranian program itself. and there's a lot of, as you know, dispute about that, when iran actually will have weaponized or will be able to do so. i think the israelis are looking at the political clock. they're probably weighing. if they were to undertake a military action against iran during the presidential campaign, likely president obama would have less capacity to discipline them or prevent such action. i think they're weighing both of those things. >> let me turn to syria, the subject of your column. when talk about when you were a reporter there and bashar al assad's father. he leveled the town of hamad. you wrote about it and went there. it is different today. tell me what you think the options are for the west and for the arab world? >> i think they're limited,

charlie. it's highly unlikely that the united states is going to do another iraq and iran, go in and decapitate the regime or even nato a l.a. libya. you have to look what are the two things holding assad up? let me say one thing. what do we want in syria? we want a peaceful transition. we want assad to leave and hand over a unity government to organize electrics. what are the two things holding assad up? one is his foreign support, iran, russia and china. the more we can peel that off shall get the chinese and russians at least to be shamed by the fact that they're supporting a kind of murderous dictatorship, that would have a huge effect on them. but the second issue, charlie, is even more important. it's one only the syrian opposition can do. can the syrian opposition, one, get united and, two, send a message to assad supporters, particularly from his own community and sunni muslims in

the big towns who have been beneficiaries of his regime that they see syria having an inclusive future in which the interests of these minorities, like the al owe iets and others will be taken care of. those are really the two props to his regime. unless we attack those, he'll be there for a while. >> tom friedman, the thing so great about you, you can talk about so many different topic. can we tourn china. the vice president of china is in town. i know yesterday at the white house, they said they want to build on u.s./chinese relations. what is the status of the relations now that we need to build on? >> i'm a big believer that life is about leverage. and when i've got leverage on my side, i love to negotiate with you. always the tables like this, i'm looking down at you. we'll negotiate all day. now, the problem is, with china right now, all the leverage is on their side. so you know when -- when we owe

someone $2 trillion, we better give them breakfast, lunch, dinner and chinese takeout. that's the situation we're in. we can lecture them about their undervalued currency and about their stealing our intellectual property but the real truth, we got to get leverage back on our side by getting our own economic house in order. >> tom, great to see you. >> always a pleasure. you guys are doing great. >> thank you. >> thank you, tom. you'll see him later on today. thank you, tom. it's now time to

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in today's "healthwatch," antibiotics and sinus infections. a lot of folks actually beg their doctor for a prescription to stop that throbbing when you're dealing with a sinus infection. >> begging is right. but the new research shows that antibiotics are not the answer. medical contributor dr. holly phillips is here to show us why. holly, hello and good morning. >> good morning, gayle and erica. >> i was surprised to hear this. i have many friends, not many, but a couple who suffer from sinuses. i know it's extremely painful and their whole thing is give me my z-pac please. >> i'm a general internist, i deal with this day in and day

out. patients come in feeling terrible with a sinus infection and begging for antibiotics. actually the numbers showman i doctors give in. one in five antibiotic pripgs are actually forced for sinusitis, but this study is showing they're not making a difference and don't need to be given. this is a study you like because you feel it's well done. >> it really was. a gold standard study. it's placebo controlled, double controlled study. ultimate ultimately, they took a group of patients all with sinusitis. they gave half of them antibiotics and half got placebo or sugar pills, dummy pills. after ten days, 80% took better whether or not they took antibiotics. it really showed it's not the medicine that's making a difference. >> psychological then? >> there could be that. many of my patients will say, can you please jus give me an antibiotic, i won't take it. but psychologically, i feel better if it's in my hand.

>> holly, i think they're taking it. >> do we just ask you for the dummy pills, for the dummy prescription, do we do other things? >> i can't write those out on my prescription pad. but there are things we can do. i recommend people take hot showers, hot baths with steam to help to loosen up the sinuses. there are prescription steroid nasal sprays which make a big difference. aspirin and ibuprofen. a lot of people like the neti pots, the saltwater solutions. >> but god, what you have to do. stick it in your nose. i hear they're great. >> i don't personally like to: i can't get over the hump. >> dr. holly, thanks. >> whitney houston's music sales have skyrocketed in the wake of her death. does that mean her estate is making a big profit? turns out, not as much as you might think. we'll ask an industry insider about houston's future earning power. you're watching "cbs this morning."

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♪ ♪ may sound inappropriate even insensitive, but sources say that sony music exetives will meet this week to decide how to market the whitney houston catalog. >> the late singer's nine albums and other recordings have suddenly become big sellers again. correspondent ben tracy looks at what it could mean for houston's estate. ♪ >> whitney houston's extraordinary voice sold 200 million albums and singles making her one of the most successful singers of all-time. yet, just before her death,

tabloids declared houston was flat broke and asking friends for handouts. houston's representatives deny she had blown her fortune. after all, the singer had signed a $100 million record deal in 2001. >> we know that whitney houston mate a boatload of money while alive. she made a quarter of a billion dollars on recorded music alone. whether or not she actually died broke still is being sorted out. >> houston's new jersey estate was nearly kwoer foreclosed on in 2006 when she failed to pay her property taxes. she admitted to spending lavishly on drugs and partying in the past decade. >> sex, drugs, rock'n'roll. you know. my friends, we have a good time. ♪ >> after houston died saturday, her songs were suddenly everywhere. her greatest hits album shot to number one on amazon and on eye

tunes, the top download was her most famous song. ♪ and i will always love you whitney houston's estate is expected to take in about $10 million this year. that's far less than who are will make. that's because whitney houston did not write or own any of her songs. the bulk of the royalties go to the songwriter and the publisher. in fact they get eight cents every time one of the songs is played on the radio. ♪ i will always love you >> dolly parton wrote that song in 1973 and has made a fortune on it ever since. >> the late michael jackson co-wrote and owned most of his music. just last year, hess estate took in $170 million. >> whitney houston's estate is not going to approach michael

jackson's estate. she didn't accumulate the kind of assets that michael jackson did. >> before her death, whitney houston did produce and star in the remake of the upcoming film sparkle. we recorded two songs for the film which will now be her final performances and a new source of revenue. for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, los angeles. mark roseler is chairman and ceo of cmg worldwide. his company represents and protects the images of hundreds of legend from babe ruth to marilyn monroe. he joins us from las vegas. mark, hello to you. >> hello. nice to be with you. >> we're glad you're here. i want to start with the numbers. i'm fascinated by the range. i heard her estate is worth zero to $115 million. i've heard right now her record sales are $10 million. where do all the figures come from and how do we really know what is true at this point? >> well, it's very difficult to value her estate at this moment.

i think listening to the last piece, what we do know is that she doesn't have the same type of arrangement on her music. she's only going to be receiving artist royalties for her performae because she didn't write and compose and publish the various songs that she sang. but that's just one aspect of what her earning potential is in the future. whitney houston is one of the most recognized faces in the world. certainly probably the most recognized face at the moment in the world. and i think what you're going to see for future generations, let's take a james dean or a marilyn monroe or people like that, those personalities have been deceased for a quarter of a century to 50-plus years and you still -- you still see the interest in these personalities around the world. >> you know, there is something -- it's been four days and it's still hard for myself and many people to digest that

whitney houston is no longer with us. it's also troubling to me that you can earn more dead than you are alive. that is the way it dps in the music business, does it not? >> well, what you have an interesting phenomena and that is her music is going to live on. people are not going to forget about her. the definition of a career today is much different than what the definition of a career was a generation ago. the types of immediate kra that are -- media that are out there, from print to television to the internet, has the ability to keep some of these personalities alive for future generations. at the end of the day, it's the interest that these people around the world have in people like michael jackson to elvis presley to marilyn monroe to james dean. in the interest in these people does not wane with their passing. sometimes the untimely and tragic nature of the way they

passed only contributes to the interest and the ability of these personalities and their respective estates to earn significant sums of money. >> mark, good morning. erica hill here with gayle. a lot of people concerned understandably about her daughter bobbi kristina. what happens wh the pos hume us earnings, do they automatically did go to her or whoever is named in the will? >> not necessarily. it would automatically go to whver is actually named in the will. we don't know at this time what that will says. >> future earnings would go to whoever she designates for her estate? >> yes. we do understand that there is a will. so that will would take into account what we're talking about here is a very valuable set of intellectual property right and these intellectual property rights as opposed to being tangible assets, might be cars

and homes and things. >> mark, i have to cut you there. the satellite will. a lot of lawyers will be involved in this. appreciate you joining us with your ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

at 25 minutes past the hour a live look at the mix of blue sky and sunshine on this wednesday morning. sharon is here to wrap up another day's morning rush and marty is over at the weather. >> 41 degrees on tv hill, these morning clouds give way to more sun. now, here is sharon gibala at wjz tv traffic control. >> hi, marty, good morning, everyone, a new accident there, that water main break still blocking millington. take brunswick street, delays in place from white marsh boulevard to 895 and the same for the jfx. there is your speeds on the beltway, 35 miles an hour the

top side and 28 miles per hour west side average drive times. there is a live look outside at the west side. this traffic report is brought to you by bill's carpet. back over to you, don. >> thank you very much that water main break has led to a broken gas line, now hundreds are without heat. andrea fujii has their story. >> reporter: the city has set up a heated shelter for those residents affected. the department of public works say it started early tuesday morning in the 300 block of millington avenue when a crew was working on a water main. they say a piece of asphalt fell on a 4 inch bge gas line and broke it. about 900 buildings are affected though half are vacant. the utility needs access to each home to shut off the gas and if any of their appliances have taken on water the city may pay for repairs.

>> federal prosecutors are charging a baltimore high school graduate with helping plan al qaeda attacks. he has been held at gitmo for nearly a decade since authorities say he plotted a bombing targeting him and he is linked to the 9/11 mastermind. he lived in the u.s. from 96 to 2002 and graduated from owings mills high school. in annapolis the governor reveals more details about his increase on the gasoline tax. he is offering them more money if they support his proposal. however if gas taxes increase by more than 15% on their own the next increase is delayed. a survey shows oysters have hit a 92% survival right. the highest number since 1997. the department says lower salt levels in the bay helped cut

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you should always listen to those in-flight announcements. a passenger on this flight from portugal to italy got the cab increw to announce hiss marriage proposal. guess what she said? yes. they all landed happily ever after. i love a good love story. welcome back to "cbs this morning." just yesterday, new york

magazine described viola davis as glowing like a beacon of majesty at a fashion event. wow. >> she glows in a different way in "the help"ment she plays a maid in the segregated south. >> i know it's scary. >> they set my cousin car on fire. >> a book like this never been written before. >> there's a reason. do this i might as well burn my own house down. >> i promise we'll be careful. >> it's more than being careful. already won a screen ak dors guild award for that role and oscar nominee for best actress. we're pleased to have you here. >> welcome. >> thank you very much. >> you say this is your most fully realized role although you had some reservations about it?

>> i did. i didn't feel people would perceive it as a fleshed out role. that they would just see the maid in 1963 in mississippi with a dialect. i wanted them to see the human being behind the uniform. >> mission accomplished. >> thank you very much. >> mission accomplished. >> you did see that, didn't you? >> yes, we did. >> you're always aware as a woman of color, as an artist of color, of the stigma involved in stereotypes and the maid absolutely is an image that has been visited time and time again in film. 72 years ago hattie mcdaniel won an award for ma'am i in gone with the wind and such a stigma involved with that image. i just, once again, i wanted her to be humanized. i feel like that's the most

revolutionary thing you can do. >> your mom and your grandmother, you talked about were maids. what do they think of the role? >> my grandmother passed away 13 years ago. and my mother has yet to see the movie. >> no way, viola. >> you know -- >> why? >> at first i thought, oh, okay, she's having health challenges with her hip. problems walking. but i think it's just because -- i think it's painful. i think -- >> i could see that. >> you have a generation of women who don't want to be reminded of the past. >> did you ever talk to her about it or about the experiences that your grandmother had in preparing for the role? >> i did. and she only gives information in little spurts. she just said that my grandmother was treated very cruelly by her employers. my grandmother had 18 children, 11 survived. and she would work from sunup to sundown in the homes taking care of the white children and cleaning the house. i mean, you know as a mother,

listen, when i take care of my daughter, i can't clean. i can't clean and cook. she did it all as well as having all the children at home. and she got paid $25 a week. and then my mom always stops there. she never gives you the details. i think it's a generation that's used to sucking it in. which is i loved abilene. to me, she represented most people in that time period who just had to suck it in and their whole lives, dreams, hopes, everything just took place in their spirits. >> you talk so candidly about your childhood, about being bullied and teased, being called ugly. that you were a black child in a predominantly white neighborhood. i'm wondering if you've heard from any of those people now, looking at you going hello viola. >> couple of them. a couple of them. although i don't think they have any memory of the names that they called. i don't -- i'm past that.

so i don't feel like i should remind them of that. but yes, i have heard from them. >> what do they say? >> viola, i always knew you would make it. >> they always do say that. >> it's amazing. >> you look so beautiful now. >> you do. >> back to your mom. how does she feel about all this extraordinary talent that you have shown us so often? >> she said, after i won the s.a.g. award, she cried and she said, that's my baby. that's my baby. but i just think that my mom, who has eight grade education and it's like someone said, i said, you know, i don't even know what her dreams were. i can't really get that out of her. but it's like someone said, her dreams were -- it's me. my sister. we were her dreams. >> yeah. >> i think that that's what's going on now. that she's seeing her dreams come to fruition through us. >> you now have a daughter, 19-month-old daughter. i'm sure you're starting too.

it's amazing how things change when you're a parent. >> you sure do. >> does she know you're viola davis? >> she doesn't know, nor does she care. she points to my head, wig, mama, wig. don't say that in public. >> some thing we deep keep in the home. >> and don't rip my eyelashes off in public. >> speaking of your hair, i saw beautiful shot of you l.a. times magazine. your daughter would say you took off your wig and showed your natural hair. uh-huh. >> you look so beautiful in the shot. was this hard for you to do, especially because women are particular about our hair. so the thought of going au natural in a short way, was that hard for you to make that decision? i'm telling you, you look stunning. >> thank you very much. it was not hard to make that decision. i felt like i was channeling another character in that picture. which was me, i guess. >> could we see that maybe in a film trail, you might be coming

to do? >> maybe. maybe i have something planned. >> i just know that you're in full flight. how does that feel to be where you are now and get the kind of recognition that you have long deserved sh. >> you know what, i always think of this quote. what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. i always think of that lately because of what's happened through the course of me kind of justifying my choice to do this role, i kind of found my own voice. i've suffered from years of low self-esteem, shyness and now i really feel like now is a time to step into all of who i am. you know, more so than ever. there's no kind of room to hold back and through that, i feel really confident about myself lately. i've never really felt that before. >> never? >> no. >> i love what you said, charlie, in full flight. that's such a great way to

describe you. i've met your husband, you've got a great husband, you've got a wonderful little girl. >> you always mention my husband, gayle. >> because -- >> what's going on here? >> do i have to take my wig off? no, no. no you don't. you don't have to take off your earrings either. i don't play married men ever. you know that. >> it's a joke. >> i know it's a joke. >> it's a joke. >> you and julius have a beautiful daughter. your career seems to be as charlie said in full flight. do you pinch yourself and say wow, it's great to be me now. how do you take all that in? >> i enjoy it for what it is right now. and i appreciate it and i understand that it's not -- it's only that way because i put the work into it. i have a good marriage because i put the work into it. i have a good relationship with my daughter because i put the work into it. it didn't just happen.

so in order for it to continue, i have to continue to feed it. >> and probably it will enable you to go to new heights in your own acting too. the more confident you are, the more things you can command. >> absolutely. especially at this time in my life. i feel like i'm entering a new stage of kind of being more behind the scenes. >> can i say, i love it's a girlie moment. i loved your dress at the golden globes. >> we were talking about it -- i mean the s.a.g. awards. >> what are you wearing to the oscars? >> i can't tell you, gayle. >> we will be watching. >> i didn't think you would tell me. >> you know i love you, gayle. >> thank you, viola. i feel the same. >> thanks for coming by. if you missed the eye-opener, dial star star am from your smartphone. we're back. i was so busy talking to vio viola, we're going to take a

look at your local good morning, sun starting to pop out from behind some overnight clouds, low 40s now. a high this afternoon of right around 51 degrees. not going to be a bad day. gets overcast again tonight. 32 is your low. tomorrow we e going to go up to about 50, that is with rain and drizzle. there is significant winter weather over the great lakes states, we just happen tobe on the mild side of it. clear it out ,,,,,,,,,,

we're in the midst of fashion week right here in new york. top designers and models showing off their latest designs. but a long-time model named sara is the face of a different kind of campaign highlighting the problems that models have on the job. >> she's the founder of model alliance. a new group advocating for models' rights in the workplace. sara is with us along with scafidi. nice to have you with us. >> thank for having us. >> we should say off the top, people think models, they have beautiful glamorous life, they travel the world, they look fantastic. that's on the surface. behind the scenes it's a very different story, you say.

>> right. i've worked as a model since i was 14 years old. so very, very young. i've been very fortunate in my career. but in that time, i've also seen how the industry disregards child labor laws. it's not really financially transparent. eating disorders are sometimes encouraged and there's even -- >> encouraged as we would think it's a great thing if you could become anorexic right now? >> it came over the wires, the model who was holland's next top model lost her contract and her job and was stripped of the title because her inches went from 35 -- her hips went from 35.5 inches to two sent miters bigger, just over 36 inches on a six foot woman. >> you talk too about the sexual abuse. you started at 14 sara, you were very young. that's how it starts a lot of times. they're young girls given promises and asked to do certain things. >> what a lot of people don't realize is that the industry

relies on the labor force of children. because designers love skinny girls and so they really go for that adolescent physique. so that means that kids are working in a very grown-up business. often they're unchaperoned, miles away from home. they're put in situations that can be compromising and so the model alliance is really working to give models basic rights and protections that any other performer has. you look at dancers or musicians or actors, and they rely on the support of unions. models don't have anything like that. >> they have absolutely no legal rights right now as an employee in. >> they're not employees, erica. that's the problem. models as independent contractors are not employees. they're not protected by many of the same sexual harassment laws in particular. never mind the financial transparency that employees have. >> i had heard one time, sara,

you described what's the difference between modeling for yourself and being a stripper? what did you mean by that, number one? were there times that you felt conflicted about what you were doing? >> i did. again, i was lucky to work with a lot of wonderful ee, creative talented people. for example, there's no policy of informed consent for jobs involving nudity. and when you think that you have 15, 16-year-old kids who are sometimes being put on the spot to take photos that are not age appropriate, i mean, it's really -- it's really bad. i don't think anyone wakes up in the morning and says, i want to exploit some 15-year-old latvians today. but the fact is that if you don't have any standards, then people -- >> what's the reaction from the industry? i'd be thinking sara ziff is talking. stop talking sara ziff. what are you hearing? >> i've been so encouraged by the support we've gotten from

the industry. we had our launch event recently and tons of models showed up to support this. shah loan harlow was there, cocoa roesh a. >> what about the fashion designers, i expect the models to say go sara go. i'm talking about the people in the industry. what are you hearing from them, any backlash for you? >> one thing we've done is tried to make this an inclusive effort. we don't want to seem adversarial. we have a common interest in improving the industry. we've gotten the support the agents, designers, photographers, all different stakeholders in the industry. >> they've endorsed the model alliances backstage privacy policy. you don't want the cell phones back there when you're changing. who knows where the pictures are going. actors equity and the american guild of musical artists are insisting on a reporting system for sexual harassment. >> it's getting the conversation

going. i would like you the model, why don't they smile when they walk down? why do they seem irritated? are you told do not smile when you walk down the runway? i'm very curious. >> in my experience, you're walking in very, very high heels. sometimes they don't fit very well. we're trying to make sure we make it to the end and back. >> okay. >> fashion road show. thank you for coming. >> pleasure. >> fashion week and then the super bowl of the dogs. we're going to show you the winner of the westminster kennel club dog shoe -- dog show. you can imagine the competition was, wait for it, ruff. uh-huh, i said it. you're watching "cbs this morning." that the university of phoenix has we have a very progressive online learning environment. we have something called phoenix connect that allows students to have a social network.

you can post discussion questions. we have more than twenty thousand faculty members, chances are one of them is online when you need some assistance. i'm ron gdovic, i'm committed to providing my students with a twenty-first-century education and i am a phoenix.

westminster dog show wrapped up at madison square garden tonight. the westminster dog show combines the excitement of watching people walk dogs with the thrill of watching dogs sit perfectly still. it's an amazing event. >> it was still a great valentine's day for dog lovers here in new york when it was all over, a four-year-old pekinese named malachi took top honors at the westminster kennel club dog show. >> elaine quijano was there. football fans have the super bowl. music lovers the grammys and in the dog world, the granddaddy of all canine contests is the westminster dog show. a prestigious event 136 years old. >> this is irish red and white setter. number 6. >> a peek behind the curtain reveals a chaotic world of primping and pampering. don't let the sub star treatment fool you. >> some people think that dogs and dog show are above the

average person and they're somehow different and they're really not. they want to be petted and interact. >> she's going to go home and play tomorrow. >> before she can play, there's serious competition. more than 2,000 dogs showed at westminster this year. 185 different breeds. >> but from all these dogs, it's whittled down to the final seven as they vie for the ultimate prize, best in show. there was cappy, the german shep aerd, the doberman, emily the irish setter. the dalmatian. chelsea the kerry blue terrier. cinders, the dachshund and the pekinese, malachi. >> best in show, the pekinese. >> in the end, it was malachi, the fifth pekinese ever to take top honors at westminster. >> he's had a terrific career. i mean, i had high expectations for him and he hasn't disappointed in any way.

>> this is malachi's last competition. his owners say he's hanging up his show collar and will spend his retirement chasing squirrels. for "cbs this morning," elaine quija quijano, new york. >> my own black lab barky would like to say to them, i can do anything you can do. >> you tell them barkley. >> jake my mutt is there with barkley. >> i think they'd have a grand time. >> a combo team. >> do you think show dogs know that they're show dogs? for instance, i bet barkley and jake feel like they're show dogs in your life. i wonder if they know, i'm special. >> when barkley hits central time, it's show off time. >> own personal arena every single day. >> not everybody thinks malachi is so cute, charlie. getting unflattering things. they're called haters. oh, no. >> we don't like that. >> congratulations to malachi. >> we wish him all the best and enjoy chasing the squirrels. up next your local news. we'll see you tomorrow on "cbs up next your local news. we'll see you tomorrow on "cbs this morning."

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five minutes before 9:00, now a lot sunnier up here on tv hill and elsewhere. marty in the first warning weather center. >> pretty sunny day, temperatures low mid-40s, now forecast for the day calls for a high of 51 degrees. that is not a bad thing. cloudy skies overnight. 32 gives way to rain tomorrow with a high of 48. we get back in the low 50s friday, saturday, sunday. going to be an interesting day featuring showers. let's see how it squares away. same computer model calling for a lousy sunday called for that same forecast for the past 4 weeks in a row. lot a not a lot of confidence there. don take it away. >> families are spending the

morning without heat or gas and it may take days before it gets turned back on. andrea fujii stays on the story. >> reporter: don the city has set up a heated shelter for those residents affected, the department of public works say it started tuesday morning in the 300 block of millington avenue when a crew was working n a water main. a piece of asphalt fell on a bge gas line and broke it. about 900 buildings are affected though half are vacant. the utility needs access to each home to shut off the gas and if any residents' natural gas appliances have taken on water the city may pay for those repairs. >> the prosecution will likely up today in the murder trial of george huguely. he is accused of killing his ex- girlfriend, yeardly love. the prosecution says he had a violent encounter with her in her off campus apartment that left her dead.

the defense will claim her death was accidental. a man is under arrest after a woman claims he attacked her inside a local home improvement store. police say samuel garrett sexually assaulted the woman there. the 39-year-old woman telling detectives he touched her inappropriately. he is now facing 6 offense and assault charges. baltimore city council president jack young is the target of an attempted burglary. police say someone tried to break into his home on monday night. young's wife first noticed the shutters and a window had been open but nothing appeared to be missing from inside. police continue to investigate. a familiar sight at the canton peer is leaving charm city for good soon. the navy will reassign the u.s. nc comfort to norfolk by next spring. they expect it will save $2 million a year. the comfort provides medical services to troops overseas and also responds to natal disasters around the world. and stay with wjz 13,

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